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Title:Deep dip teardown of tubeless insulin pump

Abstract: This paper introduces a deep level teardown process of a personal medical
device - the OmniPod wireless tubeless insulin pump. This starts with
mechanical teardown exposing the engineering solutions used inside the device.
Then the electronic part of the device is analysed followed by components
identification. Finally, the firmware extraction is performed allowing further
analysis of the firmware inside the device as well as real-time debugging. This
paper also evaluates the security of the main controller IC of the device. It
reveals some weaknesses in the device design process which lead to the
possibility of the successful teardown. Should the hardware security of the
controller inside the device was well thought through, the teardown process
would be far more complicated. This paper demonstrates what the typical
teardown process of a personal medical device involves. This knowledge could
help in improving the hardware security of sensitive devices.

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Part of keynote presentation at Hardwear.IO conference, 19-22 September 2017, Hague, Netherlands